Sarah Jaffe

What’ll happen if we spend nearly $3tn on data centres no one needs? Nineties adults remember

gee I wonder what could go wrong www.ft.com/content/7052...

Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚

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Political strategists and financiers say the opening weeks of the general election have been chaotic. They complain the anti-Mamdani bulwark lacks a positive message. And a candidate. And enough voters to win. They worry the flood of outside money could backfire, and make voters suspicious of special interests.

"the only problem is that we suck and no one likes us and no one wants to run under our banner and our ideas are toxic and we're starting to suspect that we may come off as nakedly cynical shitheads"

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Further confirmation from ICE HSI officers that they have been told to stop investigating pedophiles, human traffickers, and drug smugglers.

Officers have been told NOT to take new criminal cases so they can instead go round up more random migrants. Morale is plummeting, especially at HSI.

This week on Heart Reacts, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I answer questions on AI, working in tech, and care work.

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relentlessly on brand, we are

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this week's Heart Reacts (up shortly!) is one for the labor nerds: @vivaharehills.bsky.social goes in on so-called AI and the labor process and I dig into the problems of organizing home health care workers and Medicaid. www.patreon.com/c/HeartReacts

Have been waiting for this

YouTube video by Craig Bostick X - 4th of July

the only acknowledgement I ever make of the 4th of July www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ty...

love to see it

Trump to cut protections for home health aides, migrant farmworkers The Labor Department unveiled an effort this week to eliminate over 60 regulations.

Pursuing "American prosperity" by ensuring the overworked people who care for the elderly and disabled make almost nothing www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

😂

The inside story of Andrew Cuomo’s campaign collapse | CNN Politics Another conference call. This was what strategy looked like on Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral campaign: A small circle of aides and advisers listening to longtime aide Melissa DeRosa, who denied working on hi...

Inject it into my veins edition.cnn.com/2025/06/29/p...

All-new Heart Reacts in which @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and I talk "social deskilling" and scummy landlords.

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Yes I was joking?

LOL literally had forgotten him until just now

You say that like it's a bad thing

Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future (available to preorder) Jun 25, 2025

Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future, by our founding co-directors @bertrussell.bsky.social, @kmilb.bsky.social, and @kaiheron.bsky.social.

Release date: 20 September 2025.

Available to pre-order now from @plutopress.bsky.social (via link below).
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crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

I was out of the "covering NY politics" business before the sexual harassment scandal broke/the nursing home scandal broke, so these are just articles that give a sense of what Andrew Cuomo actually governing was like.

Politicians Are Not Our Friends - Dame Magazine On Wednesday, July 22, the wage board empaneled by New York governor Andrew Cuomo made its announcement: It would raise wages for fast-food workers in New York City to $15 an hour by 2018, and for fas...

his habit of taking credit for progressive victories that he was pushed into after opposing them tooth and nail for years www.damemagazine.com/2015/07/24/p...

How Andrew Cuomo Sold Out New York City Renters to a Pack of Wealthy Landlords As protesters camp out in Albany to demand better protections for renters, lawmakers cop out on their consituents with a lukewarm rent regulation agreement.

the headline on this one really speaks for itself I think www.thenation.com/article/arch...

charter schools, if one is so concerned, which IMHO one should be inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

With Nixon as Challenger, Cuomo Once Again Feints Left. It Might Not Work. “People’s anger and animus really built over the idea that continued to try to make these progressive claims while, every step of the way, he undermined progressive issues across the state."

and Cynthia Nixon rewirenewsgroup.com/2018/05/09/n...